I'm interested in your experience regarding the technical implementation of functional safety management within an existing quality management system, e.g., ISO 9001. I am particularly interested in implementing this process for a consulting company that performs most tasks in the safety lifecycle. Any advice is welcome and I would be greatly appreciated.

Good Morning All, Just to let you know the 61508 Association are holding a conference in York on November 25th this year. The event is free to join and looks to include a very good agenda regarding Functional Safety Compliance. I have attached the flyer for those that are interested 🙂

Quick update — I’m feeling a bit under the weather this week, so I’m going to reschedule our deep dive review session to make sure I can give it the energy and focus it deserves. I’ll post the new date and time once I’m back on my feet — aiming for Friday if all goes well. In the meantime, if there’s a specific topic or question you’d like me to cover in that session, drop it in the comments below so I can build it into the updated plan. Appreciate your understanding, and I’ll catch you all very soon. – Richard

Hi All, Just read an interesting article on the recent introduction of an ISA standard which provides guidance on the management of Independent Protection Layers - Low Integrity Protection Layers: ANSI/ISA-84.91.03-2025 Explained. This is an interesting subject as IPL's are an essential aspect when working out the target RRF of a SIF, however they are often forgotten about once the plant goes back into operation. Some sites do manage the maintenance of IPL's differently to non-safety loops, via a maintained IPL register, IPL validation and more stringent testing routines. However this is not always the case and a lot of the time IPL's just fall into the normal maintenance system as this article suggests. Would be interesting to hear from the group your thoughts on this subject .....

Hi all, With regards to carrying out an FSA 5 assessment, is it deemed necessary to carry one out if you are only adding new SIFs into an existing Safety Logic Solver. In this example, the new SIF to be installed does not share any of the same elements (other than the logic solver) as any existing SIF's, and also the new SIF has no impact on any existing SIFs? My thoughts are no, but just wondering if anyone else can clarify if I am correct?